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The banking consortium that bought ABN Amro last year has sold a portfolio of private equity investments held by the Dutch bank to a group led by Goldman Sachs, as they continue to dispose of non-core assets from the break-up of the business.

The seven-strong portfolio of UK, Nordic and Dutch companies is controlled by ABN Amro's former captive arm, now-called AAC Capital Partners, which was spun out of the bank last September.

Spokesmen for RBS and Fortis confirmed the sale was to a Goldman Sachs-led consortium but declined to comment on further details.

When RBS, Fortis and Banco Santander acquired ABN Amro for €70bn in October last year the AAC legacy portfolio was kept as one of numerous “shared assets”, which were not divided up amongst the banks unlike the majority of the bank, according to a source close to the banking consortium.

The consortium has already sold some of the other shared assets including ABN Amro’s stake in Italian bank Unicredit for an undisclosed sum but it has kept a 40% holding in Middle East bank Saudi Hollandi Bank.

Separately RBS is selling about $6bn (€4bn) in leveraged loans to a consortium of US private equity firms including Apollo Management and Blackstone Group’s hedge fund GSO Capital, according to a source close to the sale.

The UK bank had marked its leveraged loan portfolio at 87% to face value. The source would not reveal the sale price of the debt.

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The sale comes despite a six week-long decline in prices in the secondary debt markets taking average trading prices for European flow names down to 88%, the lowest trading level in 18 weeks, according to data provider S&P LCD.

RBS declined to comment. Blackstone and Apollo could not immediately be reached for comment.